OUR WARRIOR ATHLETES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 244, 10 December 1900, Page 4

OUR WARRIOR ATHLETES.

A Hiw Zuuni trooper, writing to the Premier from Saith Africa, gives Jf •tj^to^iaastiogs-.ia Ultoshoop ud Mafeking, is whlohths sum (com this coloay .figured 'promilunktiy; - •• J--At Ottoshoopa tng-of-war between • team from the Victorian contingent! ud team Irom ono of the Naw Zea bud ooatidgenli caused gre*t excitemint. Tha contest was. . wcm by the New Zeilandwa, A private m»tcbj far £IOO a-aide w*a than held,- aud i ■gain the New men were! victorious. In an artillery driving competition the 37th."Battery (Begalart) came firaty' with "New Zealand next. Ia frae latter jcaae stijer*.! wwe only 35 from wqbm to make the selection, aa agaiobt JOO'in the caw of the 37th -'B*ttery. Tto membara of oar contingents car-' riedofi tha 100 yarda rabea! ' .There wire foartaea turns tin .the LoydLiodaay oompstition; and the repre•eafta tires ot New Zealand were awi)itied aecoad place. Atthe Mafekiog cporta there wag alsOatog-of war. Twelve teams competed, and a New Za#lan4 team and a team ftooi the 8.8.'3 were lett ia t!ie finaL The New ■ Zealandera had not been trained, bob they - showed more science -'than the regalar*, and they won after a tremiadoas tussle. The betting was in of tks R.B.'at whose admirers laid-3 to 1, on them. One-of the defeated team was hnrd to refer to the t New : Zealanders a* follows: —" Fall against those fellow*! < Yon might at well set us to heare against a lot of battery bollocks,"